Lycopsis

Lycopsis
Temporal range: Mid-Late Miocene (Santacrucian-Chasicoan)
~16.3–9.0 Ma
Fossil of L. longirostrus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Metatheria
Order: †Sparassodonta
Superfamily: †Borhyaenoidea
Genus: †Lycopsis
[Cabrera, 1927
Species
  • L. torresi Cabrera, 1927 (type species)
  • L. longirostrus Marshall, 1976c
  • L. viverensis Forasiepi et al., 2003
Synonyms
  • Anatherium oxyrhynchus, Ameghino, 1894a

Lycopsis is an extinct genus of South American metatherian, that lived during the Miocene in Argentina and Colombia.[1]

Taxonomy

Skull of Lycopsis

The cladogram after the analysis of Suárez et al., 2015, looks as follows:[2]

Sparassodonta

 

Patene

 
 

 

Hondadelphys

 
 

 

Stylocynus

 
 

Hathliacynidae

 

Acyon

 
 

 

Cladosictis

 
 

 

Sipalocyon

 
 

 

Notogale

 
 

Sallacyon

 
 
 
 
 
Borhyaenoidea

Lycopsis

 

Lycopsis longirostrus

 
 

 

Lycopsis viverensis

 
 

 

Lycopsis torresi

 
 

Lycopsis padillai

 
 
 
 
 

 

Prothylacynus

 
 

 

Pharsophorus

 
 

Borhyaenidae

 

Borhyaena

 
 

 

Australohyaena

 
 

 

Arctodictis sinclairi

 
 

Arctodictis munizi

 
 
 
 
 

 

Callistoe

 
 

 

Paraborhyaena

 
Thylacosmilidae

 

Patagosmilus

 
 

Thylacosmilus

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Distribution

Fossils of Lycopsis have been found in:[3]

References

  1. ↑ Argot, C. (2004). "Functional-adaptive analysis of the postcranial skeleton of a Laventan borhyaenoid, Lycopsis longirostris (Marsupialia, Mammalia)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 24 (3): 689. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2004)024[0689:FAOTPS]2.0.CO;2.
  2. ↑ Suárez, C.; Forasiepi, A. M.; Goin, F. J.; Jaramillo, C. (2015). "Insights into the Neotropics prior to the Great American Biotic Interchange: new evidence of mammalian predators from the Miocene of Northern Colombia". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. Online edition: e1029581. doi:10.1080/02724634.2015.1029581.
  3. ↑ Lycopsis at Fossilworks.org
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